[marron]

"Service members would be offered cash if they are willing to accept reduced health care benefits for their families.

The cash offered has to be less than the service they are forgoing, or there would be no cost savings.

[Rodney King]

The cash offered has to be less than the service they are forgoing, or there would be no cost savings.

Not true. The aticle states (and 15 years of conservative thought on health care beleives) that by orienting health care polices such that the consumer has more to gain or lose on the price of health care that the consumer will make wiser choices that save money in the long run.

[untrained skeptic]

" The cash offered has to be less than the service they are forgoing, or there would be no cost savings."

In any system where someone else pays for the benefits there is a lot of unnecessary waste.

When people don't have any form of copay some will go the the emergency room for minor things. If they have to pay a copay, they go to urgent care, or make a doctor's appointment if it's not urgent.

If people have to pay a copay for prescription drugs, they often find that a cheaper, over the counter, medication suits their needs.

Even relatively small copay have been proven to make benefits plans much more affordable.